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          Fall 2012
                      GIS4037/5038c (section 6234/2926) Digital Image Processing/Remote Sensing

Many smoke plumes are visible in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in this SeaWiFS image. Dust can also be seen blowing offshore in Namibia. From www.earthscienceworld.org: This true-color image of mainland Southeast Asia was acquired on November 30, 2001, by the Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), flying aboard NASA’s Terra spacecraft. The light brown Mekong River winds its way through the center of the Cambodian jungle and into southern Vietnam. The dark blue patch to the left of the river at the bottom of the image is the Tonle Sap. Literally translated to mean Great Lake, the Tonle Sap is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia. During the rainy season from May to October, the lake will more than double in size growing from its wintertime extent of 2,500 square kilometers to over 13,000 square kilometers.From http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/SeaWiFS_ Thirteen_Years_Of_Observing_Our_Home_ Planet_999.html. This image shows the gradient in both land and water-based plant life. The dark blues in the oceans represent largely chlorophyll-free zones, while the greens are highly productive regions. The red zones, such as the Chesapeake Bay, are areas where phytoplankton and algae has bloomed to harmful levels. The range of brown to dark green on land shows the difference in the U.S. between the arid west, the grassland plains and the more heavily forested east. Credit: NASA. For a larger version of this image please go here.
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Other Interesting Academic Locations:
University of Florida Department of Geography
University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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